The clock on the wall ticked past midnight, the only sound in Karthik’s quiet Chennai apartment. He was exhausted from a long week of work, but sleep was far away. He wanted a movie—something fast-paced, maybe an old Hollywood blockbuster he’d missed, but he wanted it in his native tongue. He wanted to hear the puns and the punchlines in Tamil.
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